my geforce2 gts-v....
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2002 1:23 pm
im wanting to know the default core and memory speeds and wut is a good area to overclock. as in how high can this baby go? hehe thanx in advance.
Different cards can be overclocked by different amounts, depending on how good the card's fan is, how good the case ventilation is, whether there are RAM heatsinks attached and so on. In addition some cards simply can't overclock as far as other cards because they're all slightly different due to the manufacturing process. I can't tell you how far your card will overclock - just follow these guidelines:
1) Add an extra 5mhz or so to the current clock speed.
2) Use a program like 3DMark to 'stress test' the card by running the tests 3 or 4 times.
3) If you see visual corruption or the system crashes during the test, you've overclocked too far. Take yourself back down 5mhz - this is how far you can overclock.
4) If the test ran correctly with no problems, go back to step 1.
If you overclock bit by bit, as described above, it is very unlikely that you will damage your card. If after this process you find that your card is crashing more often, take it down another 5mhz or so until it stops crashing.
Don't forget that you may be able to increase the core speed more than the memory, or the memory speed more than the core. In general increasing the memory speed will have a greater effect on speed than increasing the core speed.
